By the way, if you can think of an appropriate caption for the Trump and Hitler bookplates or the two new years greetings please send them to me and I will publish one or more responses next weekBookplatemaven @hotmail.com

A serious combat injury in 1916 meant that Willy Knabe (Eisleben 7/7/1896 –
Magdeburg 20/3/1967) had a leg amputated. He spent the next four years at art
school, then worked as a painter and graphic artist in Berlin. He contributed
many engravings to Nazi era publications and designed Hitler’s exlibris in 1934.
In post-war Magdeburg he was an art teacher and his output was principally of
wood-engravings. See Walter von Zur Westen, Zu Knabe’s Exlibris Adolf Hitler,
Exlibris/Buchkunst und angewandte Graphik, 1934, p. 32; Willy Knabe,
Blätter für Buchkunst Exlibris und Gebrauchsgraphik, n.5 – 1965, list of
exlibris, pp. 130-32; Deutsche Exlibris Geselleschaft Jahrbuch 2011.
Readers will find numerous online references to the fate of Hitler’s books
bearing his bookplate.

5/16/2016 Comments from a reader and my response

Hi Lew, Whether one is a fan of Mr.
Trump,or is repulsed by him, the juxtaposition of Trump and Hitler is
absurd.

Phillip

Dear Phillip,

If one focuses on what Hitler did to the
Jews and others you are correct.

On the other hand, Hitler was a
charismatic leader who came into power at a time of monumental social and
financial instability offering false hope to a gullible group of
people.

In that regard the juxtaposition
makes good sense to me.

Regards,

Lew

6/12/2016 Comments submitted by Anthony Pincott

I think you have taken
the unauthorised “Trump” arms as used for Trump Park
Avenue’

An issue in which 20 pages and the back cover are devoted to
an article by Paul Latcham entitled “Bookplates and Armorial Porcelain” [New
Series, September 2008, Vol 6 No 2], available to non-members of The Bookplate
Society at £14 plus postage from the editor, Peter Youatt [email: editor@bookplatesociety.org ].
This article includes a full list of the bookplates believed to have been used
as patterns for armorial services